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The cutbacks also would slow plans to open the prisons in New Hampshire and Alabama, Mr. Holder said in a letter sent to U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md. Sen. Mikulski chairs the Senate committee on appropriations.

WASHINGTON - Majority conservatives on the Supreme Court criticized one of the pillars of 1960s civil-rights legislation, suggesting the Voting Rights Act had outlived its relevance and was imposing... 0